The International Academic Forum in conjunction with its global university and institutional partners is proud to announce the Fourth Annual Asian Conference on Language Learning, to be held from April 17-20 2014, at the Rihga Royal Hotel and the adjoining Osaka International Conference Center (OICC) in Osaka, Japan.

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2014 Conference Theme
"Individual, Community, Society: Connecting, Learning and Growing"


The conference theme is "Individual, Community, Society: Connecting, Learning and Growing", and the organizers encourage submissions that approach this theme from a variety of perspectives. However, the submission of other topics for consideration is welcome and we also encourage sessions within and across a variety of disciplines and fields related to Language Learning and Teaching, including the following streams:

Alternative assessment
Anxiety & Motivation
Bilingualism
Blended learning
Constructivist approaches
Conversation analysis
Cross-Cultural Communication
Design
First language acquisition
Gaming and Simulation
Individual differences
Innovative language teaching and learning methodologies
Interactional competence
Inter-group relations
Knowledge management/LMS
Language education
Learner and teacher autonomy
Learning Environments
Learning Strategies
Learning third languages
Life long learning
Literacy
Linguistics
Methodology
Open Learning Initiative (OLI)
Phonetics and Phonology
Pragmatics
Sociolinguistics
World Englishes
Teacher training
Testing and evaluation
The good language learner
Translation and Interpretation



Abstracts of no more than 250 words should be submitted by January 1 2014.

All abstracts will be blind reviewed by a voluntary team, and authors will usually be notified of the decision of the reviewers within two weeks of submission. Those who submit near the January 1 deadline will receive confirmation of acceptance or rejection by January 15 2014.

All accepted authors may have their full paper published in the conference proceedings (published online on the IAFOR site). Full text submission is due by June 1 2014. The deadline for full conference payment for all presenters is April 1 2014.

Righa Royal Hotel
5-3-68 Nakanoshima, Kita-ku, Osaka 530-0005 Japan | Phone: +81 (0)6-6448-1121